Traditional satellite networks depend on the closed and planned architecture. Thus, there
are many challenges such as configuration update, new communication and networking …

Satellite networks have traditionally been considered for specific purposes. Recently, new
satellite technologies have been pushed to the market enabling high-performance satellite …

To date, traditional satellite systems are contained-designed and inflexible for configuration
update, space systems interconnections and providing fine-grained services. In this paper …

The existing satellite communication systems suffer from traditional design, such as slow
configuration, inflexible traffic engineering, and coarse-grained Quality of Service (QoS) …

In recent years, with the rapid development of satellite technology including On Board
Processing (OBP) and Inter Satellite Link (ISL), satellite network devices such as space IP …

In recent years, satellite networks have been proposed as an essential part of next-
generation mobile communication systems. Software defined networking techniques are …

Terrestrial networks are currently embracing new paradigms as Software Defined
Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV); these technologies can …

A space and terrestrial integrated network (STIN) converges satellite communication
networks, mobile wireless networking, and the Internet, has greatly extended the scope of …

This paper provides an assessment study on the virtualization of a Digital Video
Broadcasting‐Satellite‐Second Generation (DVB‐S2)/Digital Video Broadcasting‐Return …

In the context of next generation 5G networks, the satellite industry is clearly committed to
revisit and revamp the role of satellite communications. As major drivers in the evolution of …